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Washington has long seemed like the federal government’s illegitimate child, denied statehood and degrees of autonomy. Congress’s neglect extends to the city’s H.I.V. epidemic, a situation made agonizingly clear in Susan Koch’s quietly unblinking documentary, “The Other City.” The title derives from Washington’s split personality: as the illustrious home of politicians and monuments, and as a metropolis with the highest H.I.V. infection rate in the country. Journalists (Frank Rich of The New York Times, Colbert I. King of The Washington Post); advocates (the writer Larry Kramer); and politicians (Adrian M. Fenty, the mayor of Washington; Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton, a Democrat) offer viewpoints, and the film rolls out disturbing statistics, the most alarming being the city’s increase in reported H.I.V.-AIDS cases from 2006 to 2007: 22 percent. — Andy Webster